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| anyone ever use those lure retrievers off ebay that you send down the line and try to knock it lose that way? |
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Location: colorado | I made one. with a steel ring and chains. works great. the biggest thing I found wrong with others was the rope was not heavy enough and broke. most are not made for musky baits. |
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| We fish in a lake that is full of stick ups and get hung at least a dozen times every trip. We use the one on the extendable pole made by frabill and have had excellent luck with it. We almost always get the lure back. The key is to run it down until you feel it going over the leader. When it hits the bait twist it several times basically screwing it over the lure and it is yours. The only problem we have with it is once in a while it is hard on the leader. |
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| True. luckily we have only ran into that once or twice in the last two years. |
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Location: Detroit River | I've been using the Cabela's Snagmaster for almost 20 years now & that thing has saved coutless lure for me. |
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Location: Oak Creek, WI | I bought one this summer and It worked just fine. |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | get the one by toothyfishman
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lure-Retriever-Musky-Muskie-Pike-/230905752...
great retriever
Mike
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| I have had the same Lure retriever now for almost 10 years now and it works like a champ....
First you buy a Dog Flexi Lead 25' for big dogs. (it has a handle and a button on it to lock or let more line out)
Then tie it to the top of an item called a Hound Dog sold by Cabelas, (piece of lead shaped like a Hound dog.)
Then add several different size and different length chains onto the bottom of the Hound dog. It weighs about 4 lbs and you just clip on the braided line and hold the button down it will slide all the way down to the lure. When it gets to the lure lock the button and just raise your rod and the lure retriever at the same time and it will catch your lure for sure. then just unlatch the lock switch and it automatically retrieves your line all the way in. made by Flexi Lead.... It cost a few dollars to make but I Never lose them anymore...Best thing ever. |
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| I also have the toothyfishman retriever....works great! |
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| Toothyfisherman is great and has saved all but one of my snags. The Frabil or BPS pole is nice for shallow snags and the only option for getting out the non-submerged snags that I get. No more baits hanging in the trees in my favorite spots. |
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| SixBowls - 1/14/2013 4:25 PM
No more baits hanging in the trees in my favorite spots.
LOL. Who would throw a lure into a tree?  |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Anyone fishing with me on several of the waters I frequent...eventually even the best 'find' a tree limb. |
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| Guest - 1/14/2013 4:38 PM
SixBowls - 1/14/2013 4:25 PM
No more baits hanging in the trees in my favorite spots.
LOL. Who would throw a lure into a tree? ; )
I've done it. Fishing on Eagle a few years back. Went out in the evening after several days of throwing double tens. Clipped on a topraider and threw a mindless cast towards shore, with the same motion and effort I had used on the last few thousand casts. Not just in a tree, but up a tree. Far enough where it will be there until the hooks rust through or the tree falls down... |
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| esoxaddict - 1/14/2013 5:22 PM
LOL. Who would throw a lure into a tree? ;)
I've done it. Fishing on Eagle a few years back. Went out in the evening after several days of throwing double tens. Clipped on a topraider and threw a mindless cast towards shore, with the same motion and effort I had used on the last few thousand casts. Not just in a tree, but up a tree. Far enough where it will be there until the hooks rust through or the tree falls down...
Pretty much the exact thing happened to me. My excuse is it was my 2nd day ever of musky fishing and I had a follow on a bucktail. It was the first musky I had seen and it looked huge! In reality, it was probably a 40 inch fish though, but that's huge to a newby who is a bass fisherman. It followed on the 8 2 times then ghosted away toward a rock point. I saw it up shallow on some rocks and clipped on a topraider. In my musky fever, I casted like I had been casting the DC and snagged the branches directly above the rocks the fish had gone too. Unfortunately, I couldn't pull the branch down to knock the musky out... I did get the lure back though, but I don't think musky like branches shaking over their head. |
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| Guest - 1/14/2013 4:38 PM
SixBowls - 1/14/2013 4:25 PM
No more baits hanging in the trees in my favorite spots.
LOL. Who would throw a lure into a tree? ; )
The guy in the back of my boat. Not me!
Another use for the pole retriever is a push pole. It comes in handy to free the boat that gets stuck on the car size boulders that lurk just under the surface on the Susquehanna. Doesn't work so good when you come off plane on a gravel bar in eight inches of water. Not saying that I would know  |
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